TimB

Dry slotted to hell. Wonder if we even get an inch.

This clipper is starting to look like a dud. Radar looks pretty sparse so far. Hope I’m wrong.

Just feels like there’s still a very real path to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and somehow fall short of normal annual snowfall despite already being at 36” for the season as of 1/25.

Is it just me or is tomorrow’s clipper looking a bit more meh as it approaches? Like closer to 1” rather than 2 or 3 if we’re lucky?

You’ve been talking about divorcing your wife for years now. Just do it already.

NWS seems pretty confident in the clipper on Friday. 80% chance of snow. About the highest I’ve seen for day 7.

It’s now made it to -11 there for the first time since 1994.

There were weather stations in northern Butler County in the -25 to -30 range this morning. Of course, we didn’t radiate nearly that well down here.

Interested to see if we get better radiational cooling conditions tonight and/or tomorrow night and see how cold we can go, or if it’ll just be kinda meh like the last few nights.

Yeah the other day I was out for a walk with the dog and it was snowing and there was barely a cloud in the sky.

I’d question whether we “officially” get below zero any mornings other than Friday and Saturday, which look like slam dunks, but even those don’t look like spectacular radiational cooling nights. We just don’t do radiational cooling well in this region in general due to cloud cover, but the airport does it especially poorly.

Record is 7 in Feb 1899. We had 6 in Jan 1936 and a bunch of years with 4 (most recently the 1994 one that includes our all timer of -22).

The problem is, with the liquid equivalent and snow accumulation being observed at different sites, we don’t really have an apples to apples comparison. @TheClimateChanger does the NWS office have some sort of ASOS/AWOS or just snow obs and that’s it?

This would be brutal.

For those hours when the NWS was adding .4” to the total, the airport ASOS station was recording .08” liquid equivalent. Did our ratios drop as low as 5:1?